sbomgrader 0.1.1

SBOM Grader

SBOM Grader

This project grades SBOMs according to Red Hat Product Security Guide to SBOMs.

Currently the script only fully supports SPDX v2.3 in json format. CycloneDX is partially supported in version v1.5 for Product SBOMs.

Installation

pip install sbomgrader

Quick start

To show the command line options, run the following command:

sbomgrader --help

This script uses both STDOUT and STDERR. STDOUT receives the output of the grading, while STDERR reports anything causing troubles to the command execution unrelated to the SBOM file.

Usage options

If you only specify the SBOM document, the script will try to estimate the SBOM type and apply all time-related cookbooks for that type (e.g. if it finds that an SBOM is for an RPM, it will run both rpm build and rpm release cookbooks). The release-time cookbook will take precedence in establishing the final grade.

To specify the cookbook to be used, use -c option. This option must be a reference to an .y[a]ml file in the filesystem.

To specify SBOM type, the tool lets you specify SBOM type -tp and SBOM time -tm. SBOM type ise either product, image, image_index, rpm or generic. Generic type only checks the common features of other types, the other types are described [here] (https://redhatproductsecurity.github.io/security-data-guidelines/sbom/). The SBOM times are also explained in the article linked. You can select values build or release.

The default passing grade is B. This can be changed with the argument -g and the target value.

The script outputs data in three possible formats. The default one in Markdown, you can also select json or yaml.

Architecture

This project uses terms like Rules, RuleSets, Cookbooks and CookbookBundles. These are all representations of a test suite to run against an SBOM file.

CookbookBundles are composed of Cookbooks which reference RuleSets which are made of Rules.

Rules are specific tests to be run, RuleSets are suites of Rules.

Cookbook defines which force has to be applied on each rule for each SBOM type. You are completely free to create your own cookbook if the provided ones don't suit your needs. CookbookBundles are only aggregation of Cookbooks which ensures no test has to be run more than once on any document.

For details about Cookbooks, refer to the cookbooks/README.md file.

For details about RuleSets, refer to the rulesets/README.md file.